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First welding in open space

First welding in open space
Who
Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Svetlana Savitskaya
What
First
Where
Not Applicable
When
24 July 1984

On 25 July 1984, Soviet cosmonauts Svetlana Savitskaya and Vladimir Dzhanibekov performed a 3-hour 30-minute spacewalk on the outside of the Salyut 7 space station, during which they performed welding, brazing and metal spraying.

They used a hand-held electron beam for their metal work, which had been designed specially for this work over 10 years.